[SkyPilot]

I am not completely endorsing what this Rabbi says, but posting for anyone that might be interested, as many biblical experts see the war prophesied in Ezekiel 38 and 39 coming to fruition with today's headlines.

“Russia has entered into Syria with great strength and even China has announced that they will be doing so also. This will apparently lead to the Third World War with the United States and its allies and to horrifying spilling of blood until they will all be destroyed.”

Doesn't sound so good for the United States. However, we are ripe for God's judgment.

Our "Sequestered" and leadership decapitated military is a shadow of what it was 7 years ago, while Russia and China have been increasing their might exponentially during the same time frame.

We have descended into immoral madness, and have betrayed Israel.

[SkyPilot]

Ping to you both. Good morning.

[knarf]

My faith is in God's Wisdom and Mercy to see "we" haven't betrayed Israel, but that our "leadership" has.

And I want to believe God's judgement will fall on those that have developed and perpetrated that wicked process and for the sake of the remnant (2Chron 7:14), spare our nation

Politics is NOT the answer, but this political cycle is unique in any I've ever seen and again want to believe (NOW I say .. ) we have awakened to revival and call upon God to forgive us and cleanse us

The recent flap regardin PP is just a taste of what "we" should be doing

I'm SO anxious to see Jan 30, 2017

[SkyPilot]

One thing is certain: if there is a war in the next few months, it is "come as you are." This is not WW II where we can produce the P-51 Mustang from drawing on a napkin to flying prototype in 102 days.

Besides the smallest Navy since WW I, a decimated Marine Corps, the Army only having a handful of Brigades combat ready, the Air Force smaller with an older fleet that at any time in history, the morale of the military is lower than it was post-Vietnam.

Morale is a massive factor in any fighting unit or army. Lord Nelson's fleet was outnumbered, but his men loved him, and he gave them better training. The British, with leadership, superior tactics, and fighting spirit destroyed the French and British fleets at Trafalgar 210 years ago this month.

The American military has been feminized, degraded, hamstrung, and smeared as a bunch of sexual harassers - all built on phony data and lies.

Critics try and compare military spending in Dollars between Russia, China, and the US. There are several fallacies to this argument.

One, we don't really know what Russia and China actually spend, we can only guess. Only the US is transparent with its actual Defense Spending.

Secondly, we compare apples to oranges. If a US factory produces a pair of boots that cost $150, a great deal of that cost was our way of doing business. Safety rules, union wages, legal costs, minority owned contracting privilege/profit by law, and on and on.

Russia and China don't play by those rules. They can produce the same or better pair of boots for $25 dollars.

On the battlefield, a bullet kills or maims the same, it does not discriminate about which costs more to produce.

[Dedbone]

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[Library Lady]

Isn’t Turkey one of the countries that comes with Gog to attack Israel? If Russia and Turkey are fighting each other, I don’t see this as exactly Ezekiel 38. . . yet.

[SteveinSATX]

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[Perseverando]

Come, Lord Jesus! Have mercy on your children. Protect Israel in the last days!

[bert]

or not

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

Hassidic Rabbanical Leaders aren’t all that they’re cracked up to be.

[EEGator]

TEOTWAWKI BS prediction 9,372,622.

[Alas Babylon!]

Genesis 18:23–25

23 Then Abraham drew near and said, “Will you indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked? 24 Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city. Will you then sweep away the place and not spare it for the fifty righteous who are in it? 25 Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put the righteous to death with the wicked, lso that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! mShall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?”

26 And the Lord said, “If I find at Sodom fifty righteous in the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”

Surely there are more than 50 righteous in the United States? Yes, there are still MILLIONS.

We all need to start praying for not the destruction of America, but her redemption from the wicked.

[arthurus]

the War of Gog and Magog as taking place in Israel, the war has already begun and is taking place in Syria

In David's time Syria was, I believe, part of Israel.

[Mom MD]

Our Jewish brethren agree. Prophecy is coming alive before our eyes Look up! Get oil for your lamps His coming is near, even at the door

[jjotto]

I well remember Rav Kaduri, who was of much higher stature than this guy, saying in 2004 that the War of Gog and Magog began in 2001 and would be over in 2011.

[goodwithagun]

Where’s the huge manatee?

[mcshot]

And all our “alpha agencies” have armored up to help the “civilian defense force” take us down. It has been a few years since I read about the Latino groups being trained and armed. The golfer in chief has been preparing for a civil war and we are ripe for the picking.

[GBA]

Doesn't sound so good for the United States. However, we are ripe for God's judgment.

I think the US is much like the tree in Nebuchadnezzar’s dream and He just filled and fired up the holy chainsaw.

[gaijin]

We have NOTHING to gain by fighting in Syria.

Let them all kill each other.

STAY OUT is written all over this one.

[DouglasKC]

While I don't doubt that we are near the return of Christ I would question that the war of Gog and Magog is anywhere close to happening. That event seems to happen long after Christ has returned...after the millenium:

Eze 38:1 Now the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Eze 38:2 "Son of man, set your face against Gog, of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him,
Eze 38:3 and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I am against you, O Gog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal.
Eze 38:4 I will turn you around, put hooks into your jaws, and lead you out, with all your army, horses, and horsemen, all splendidly clothed, a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords.
Eze 38:5 Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya are with them, all of them with shield and helmet;
Eze 38:6 Gomer and all its troops; the house of Togarmah from the far north and all its troops—many people are with you.
Eze 38:7 "Prepare yourself and be ready, you and all your companies that are gathered about you; and be a guard for them.
Eze 38:8 After many days you will be visited. In the latter years you will come into the land of those brought back from the sword and gathered from many people on the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate; they were brought out of the nations, and now all of them dwell safely.
Eze 38:9 You will ascend, coming like a storm, covering the land like a cloud, you and all your troops and many peoples with you."
Eze 38:10 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "On that day it shall come to pass that thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will make an evil plan:
Eze 38:11 You will say, 'I will go up against a land of unwalled villages; I will go to a peaceful people, who dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates'—
Eze 38:12 to take plunder and to take booty, to stretch out your hand against the waste places that are again inhabited, and against a people gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, who dwell in the midst of the land.

The thing is that right now there are many walls, bars and gates in Israel. The country is heavily fortified and heavily defended. The people do not live in safety. There are rockets being fired at them almost constantly. There is the threat of terrorist attacks daily.

But there IS a time when that won't be so:

Rev 20:4 And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
Rev 20:5 But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
Rev 20:6 Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years.
Rev 20:7 Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison
Rev 20:8 and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea.
Rev 20:9 They went up on the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. And fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them.

The last two verse are the fulfillment of Ezekiel 38, 39. Same thing, not as much detail. After the thousand years there will be no walls, no defenses, no locks, no gates. Because people will have just gone through a thousand year period of peace and happiness under the direct rule of Christ.